Security and Crime

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  • Security forces seize ton of illegal drug in S. Sinai

    Date: 2016-12-29 11:33:21 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:29 - ID:6238081

    CAIRO, Dec. 29 (MENA) - Nuweiba security forces seized 500 packets of bhang weighing one ton, a security source said on Thursday. In remarks to MENA, the source said a security force was patrolling the mountainous area of Wadi Water, when it ....

  • 9 killed, injured in car accident in Ras Sedr

    Date: 2016-12-29 08:08:06 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:12 - ID:6236737

    EL TOUR, Dec 29 (MENA) - Three people were killed and six others injured in a car accident in Oyun Musa area, 35 kilometers north of Ras Sedr, on Thursday. The collision took place between a micro-bus and pick-up truck. The dead bodies and ....

  • Cairo customs foil attempt to smuggle large quantity of medicines

    Date: 2016-12-29 05:56:32 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:1 - ID:6236273

    CAIRO, Dec 29 (MENA) - Cairo Customs foiled an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of medicines without paying necessary customs dues, a well-placed source at the Customs Authority said late on Wednesday. Customs officers suspected an Egyptian ....

  • 70 prisoners pardoned, 84 others released on parole nationwide

    Date: 2016-12-28 16:31:18 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:65 - ID:6234317

    CAIRO, Dec 28 (MENA) - The Prisoners' Sector at the Interior Ministry decided on Wednesday to pardon 70 inmates and release 84 prisoners on parole from jails nationwide. The prison service sector said it had formed committees to check on prisons ....

  • Armed Forces destroy longest tunnel in western Rafah

    Date: 2016-12-28 12:54:11 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:46 - ID:6232993

    CAIRO, Dec 28 (MENA) – Law Enforcement Forces of the Second Field Army destroyed one of the longest and largest tunnels in Rafah in North Sinai governorate, the Armed Forces said in a statement on Wednesday. The 1,700-meter-long tunnel was used ....

  • State Council procurement general manager, two others to be remanded in custody for four days over bribery charges

    Date: 2016-12-28 06:30:43 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:5 - ID:6230133

    CAIRO, Dec 28 (MENA) – The Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered on Wednesday remanding in custody for four days the State Council's Procurement General Manager, Gamal Eddin Mohamed el Labban, and two other suspects over bribery charges. El ....

  • Truck driver arrested with over 23,000 pills of illegal drugs in his possession

    Date: 2016-12-27 14:18:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:64 - ID:6227765

    CAIRO, Dec 27 (MENA) - Officers of the Anti-Narcotics General Administration managed to arrest a truck driver with over 23,000 pills of Captagon drugs in his possession. Reports said the driver intended to smuggle the illegal drugs to an Arab ....

  • Two faculty students arrested over selling stolen gold objects

    Date: 2016-12-27 06:00:31 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:3 - ID:6223805

    QENA, Upper Egypt, Dec 27 (MENA) – Security forces arrested early Tuesday two law faculty students while attempting to sell 650 grams of stolen gold objects. One of the detainees admitted during initial investigations that he was financially ....

  • Bus driver who ran over 8 persons arrested in Qalyubia

    Date: 2016-12-26 19:27:37 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:62 - ID:6222225

    BANHA, Egypt, Dec 26 (MENA) - Security bodies in Qalyubia on Monday arrested a bus driver who ran over eight persons leaving all of them dead on the agricultural highway. The bus was seized and the driver was referred to the prosecution that ....

  • Security efforts underway to nab bus driver who ran over 8 persons

    Date: 2016-12-26 13:32:40 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:34 - ID:6220749

    BANHA, Egypt, Dec 26 (MENA) - Security bodies in Qalubiya intensified efforts to arrest the driver of the bus which ran over eight persons leaving all of them dead and fled the scene of the accident. Qalubiya Security Chief Magdy Abdel Aal ....

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